Favorite acoustic album featuring mandolin?

[kidgloves2]

I have amassed a large number of acoustic albums over the years. Been thinking about which one is my favorite featuring mandolin. I have come to the conclusion that Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck's "Uncommon Ritual" is the most perfect acoustic album I ever heard. Sure there are others right up there like "Appalachia Waltz" which is a flawless album, but doesn't have much mandolin. Chris Thile's "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" gets spun a lot. David Grisman and Stephane Grappelli "Live" is AMAZING. Mike Marshall and Mark O'Connor are on that one too.

But I keep coming back to "Uncommon Ritual." It might be the greatest album of all time for me.

What is your favorite acoustic album featuring mandolin?

[Jim]

Doc & Dawg, Strength in Numbers, The View from here. Not sure if you meant instrumental , These 3 are high on my list today.

[kidgloves2]

Can be instrumental or with vocals. If you had to pick one, which would it be?

What's The View From Here? Is that Matt Flinner? Artie Traum has an album of the same title. Not sure if there is mandolin on that one.

[Jim]

Yep Flinner, I can't pick and may have changed my mind dozen times since I typed that 15 min ago.

[TheBlindBard]

I haven't given this one a listen in a while and I put it on while helping my sister with a paper. "The Morning Star," by Marla Fibish. Beautiful playing and very relaxing. Next to that, I'd have to say Nickle Creak, I really enjoy their playing.

[verbs4us]

well..only kinda acoustic: Ry Cooder, Into the Purple Valley

[Daniel Nestlerode]

The album that turned me into a mandolin player: Garcia/Grisman.

Daniel

[roysboy]

Hot dawg

[kmmando]

De Danann second album on Decca "Selected Jigs, Reels and Songs"
Andy Irvine and Paul Brady album on Mulligan - eponymous

Gold medal stuff for me ...

[P Josey]

Tony Rice Unit "Still Inside" from 1981 with John Reischman on mandolin.

[bbaker2050]

Chris Thile "Not All Who Wander Are Lost"- never gets old.....classic.....beautiful.

[JEStanek]

I may have to dig into the stacks and re-listen to a few before I could name a favorite mandolin featuring CD. Edgar Meyer has so many great collaborations (Thile, Marshall, Fleck....), Grisman is an icon. Thile's Bach and NAWWAL is a fantastic record too. eric Weissberg's Deliverance sowed the mandolin seed in my brain when I was a kid. Compton and Long's Stomp is great. I'll end with Statman's East Flatbush Blues. What he does on Uman feels sacred to me.

Jamie

[F-2 Dave]

Grappelli and Grisman Live.

[Gerry Hastie]

If I had to pick just one I probably would go for the Garcia/Grisman first album. It is one of those 'go to' albums for me - when you can't of what to put on that one always does it for me no matter what the mood or occasion.

[stevem]

Uncommon Ritual is hard to beat--so many good songs. Tony Rice Bluegrass Guitar Collection is up there for me too. Tons of mandolin content. Also Thile/Marshall Live Duets and the soundtrack to Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark documentary.

[Alex Orr]

Given enough time, I could name at least a hundred bluegrass albums. Asking what my favorite acoustic album is featuring mandolin is like asking my favorite jazz album featuring drums.

[Lord of the Badgers]

Tough one but cool thread - most of my folk music listening is a live thing. I'm not a BG guy, so...

I can certainly proffer this individual track though...
- the album's not bad but not in my top ten

Just like the atmosphere on this immensely - this is the kind of mando playing that appeals to me I would say

[Marvino]

For me, Hands down its Bill Monroes "Master of Bluegrass"
Why they have never re-issued it on CD, I dont understand?????

[Mike Bunting]

Rotten Taters, by Mike Compton.

[mandocrucian]

Mandolin tended to be somewhat incidental (not on every track) on just so many of my favorite albums. And/or a lot of those albums weren't purely acoustic (Steeleye Span, Woods Band, Fairport, Cooder, etc) either. Or, it was other factors/instruments that were more important than the mando itself.

But after racking my memory, I guess I would have to say it was probably Planxty's first album. Great playing by Andy Irvine.

[Bigtuna]

Mandolin tended to be somewhat incidental (not on every track) on just so many of my favorite albums. And/or a lot of those albums weren't purely acoustic (Steeleye Span, Woods Band, Fairport, Cooder, etc) either. Or, it was other factors/instruments that were more important than the mando itself.

But after racking my memory, I guess I would have to say it was probably Planxty's first album. Great playing by Andy Irvine.

Thanks for turning me on to this!

[re simmers]

The Kitchen Tapes have to be on the list.
Bob

[mandopops]

I'll go with "Martin, Bogan, & the Armstrongs" their 2nd album on Flying Fish. I still love this record.
I used to see them around Chicago & was on the bill with them a few times at a club called Sylvester's. Good mix of Jazz, Blues, Pop & Old-time.
I was just starting to play Mandolin & was not listening to Bluegrass, so this was a big influence on me. 2 trax have 2 Mandolins. Armstrong puts down his Fiddle & joins Carl on Mexicali Rag & Blue Ridge Mountain Blues.

Joe

[mandroid]

Peter Ostrousko presents 'the Mando Boys', it's a Mandolin family Quartet,
4 players; 2 Mandolins, a Mandola, and a Mandocello.

[Jon Hall]

Peter Ostrousko's "Mando Chronicles" gets my vote.